I think this is the same as in English. If I say "It happened in the year 300" no one knows if I mean CE or BCE, but they assume I mean CE. 

If we had an easy way to talk about negative numbers, then I'd use that for BCE.

I don't know if I'd get "100 BCE" from {wa' vatlh DIS qaSpa' tera' DIS pagh} if we hadn't had had this conversation first (or there was more context included). Maybe {tera' DIS wa'-pagh-pagh qaSpa' tera' DIS pagh, jagh luHIv} - "Terran year 100, before Terran year 0 happened, they attacked the enemy.", but that still feels clunky to me. There's got to be a better way to say it. 

Maybe {tera' DIS wa'-pagh-pagh qaSpa' bov motlh, jagh luHIv} - "Terran year 100, before the usual era happened, they attacked the enemy". I'm not a fan of that either really. 

qurgh

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 1:00 PM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:

qurgh:

> I mostly use {tera' DIS} when talking about current Earth time

Initially, I thought of using the {tera' DIS}; but the problem is that if I say {tera' DIS wa' vatlh}, then how would someone know if I mean "100 c.e." and not "100 b.c.e." ?

Now that I think of it again, perhaps we could say something like {wa' vatlh DIS qaSpa' tera' DIS pagh} for "100 years b.c.e.", and {wa' vatlh DIS qaSpu'DI' tera' DIS pagh} for "100 years c.e."

But the problem is, are the above understood by the average reader ? If you read these, would you understand what I'm trying to say ?

qunnoq

On Sep 22, 2017 7:48 PM, "qurgh lungqIj" <qurgh@wizage.net> wrote:

tera' DIS... ;)

I use "CE" instead of "AD". That could be {bov motlh}, but I mostly use {tera' DIS} when talking about current Earth time. 

qurgh

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 12:44 PM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:

Can someone tell me how to say in klingon "Anno Domini" ?

I know we can say {qeylIS bov nubwI'} for "before the era of qeylIS". So initially I thought of saying {christ bov cho'wI'}.

But then I realized that the verb {cho'} means "to succeed to authority", and not "to succeed (in general)".

So, I came up with {christ bov bov veb} for "the next era of the era of christ".

I think this is correct, but again I'm not certain..

Would you understand it if you saw it, without knowing the intended meaning ? Can you think of something better ? And if you can, can you tell me too ?

qunnoq

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